1972‚ The Godfather hits theaters, the Winter Olympics are held in Sapporo, and Nixon goes to China. That same year, Europe 72 is released and quickly becomes a watershed in the Grateful Dead's body of work. Sonic Studio's technology was used on the original CD masters of this iconic work, and now 40 years later Sonic Studio's tools are being used again for the upcoming release of the complete Europe 72 tour, a total of 22 venues, over 400 songs, as a 70+ CD release. Sonic Studio tools including soundBlade, secureDDP, and Amarra are all being employed to maintain the highest quality standards required for an iconic tour as Europe 72.
Dave Glasser is adding the final mastering polish and works with Jeffrey Norman of Mockingbird Mastering. David Gans, Jeffrey Norman and Airshow Mastering's Dave Glasser all value the fidelity and editorial power of soundBlade. Jeffrey Norman says, "I wouldn't consider editing in any other platform but soundBlade. It sounds great and, as far I'm concerned, is completely intuitive."
The music starts with Jeffrey Norman who is mixing the entire tour at Prairie Sun studios in Sonoma County, California. Jeffrey mixes through a custom 8026 Neve console through a Pacific Microsonics Model Two. The stereo stem is transferred into soundBlade for editing and cleanup. The finished takes are then encrypted using Sonic Studio's secureDDP and safely sent by Airshow Mastering in Boulder to Jeffrey and David Lemieux, Grateful Dead Archivist, for reference and further mastering.
David Glasser uses his soundBlade and Sonic Studio 303 Audio Interface to edit the shows, and receives a soundBlade Project each week. "We're loving it". David also adds "the ability to safely send masters using secureDDP is essential for this workflow." Using high performance encryption ensures that the masters are safe and the built-in audio player provides a complete integrated solution.
For more information on "dead to the world" and David Gans, please visit: Dead To The World.
This year visitors' should plan on stopping by Adebar Acoustics in Hall 5.1 at Booth A87. Be sure to see demonstrations of the PreMaster CD, soundBlade, and Amarra VINYL Restoration applications at the upcoming Musikmesse Show in Frankfurt Germany from April 6-9, 2011.
For more information on Adebar Acoustics: MORE.
Sonic Studio is excited to announce expanded distribution in Japan with Media Integration Inc. Media Integration Inc is headquatered in Tokyo. With dealers throughout Japan and a flagship location with its Rock On Pro store, Media Integration can provide customers their extensive knowledge and equipment for hands on evaluation.
For more information please read the press release: MORE.
Sonic Studio Gathers Grammys
Props for the home team…Go guys!
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Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance |
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Best Instrumental Composition |
David Glasser Airshow Mastering |
Best Musical Album for Children category |
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Ken Lee |
Best Latin Jazz Album category |
Burman Sound Inc |
Best Jazz Solo Improvisation |
Sonic Studio Moves Fidelity Forward At 129th AE
Sonic Studio personnel was on hand for the 129th Audio Engineering Society in San Francisco November 5-7 at the Moscone Center. The company gave the first public showing of PreMaster CD 3.3 and the high resolution recording and restoration application Amarra VINYL.
The crowds came... James Anderson and Dietrick Hardwick showing Amarra VINYL
Gavin Lurssen, Mandy Parnell, Keith Johnson, Oliver Masciarotte, and Daniel Weiss (using Amarra)
Sonic Studio Users In Mix Magazine
The December 2009 issue of Mix Magazine features several Sonic Studio Software users, including the cover shot of Michael Romanowski's beautiful room.
Notice the screen shots behind most of the engineers featured in this issue and you will notice one similarity: Sonic Studio software.
Michael Romanowski Mastering
Terra Nova Mastering
ACMastering
Airshow Mastering
2010 Grammy Nominations...
The 2010 Grammy Awards and Sonic Studio Users.
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Jars of Clay received a nod in the Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album category for its April 21 release, The Long Fall Back To Earth. |
Classic Master Brasil |
Mastering Engineer: Carlos Freitas |
 Bang Zoom Productions |
 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Fourplay's first single from Energy "Fortune Teller" [Bluebird/RCA Victor] Mastering Engineer: Steve Vavagiakis |
127th AES - New York City
Be sure to visit with us (booth #657) at the 127th AES in New York City, October 9-12 2009.
We will be showing our secureDDP and sonicDDP Player applications, along with PreMaster CD and soundBlade.
In addition, Amarra, the ultra-fideilty computer music player, will be on exhibit. Check out what high resolution playback is all about.
Get your free pass here (exhibits only): Free AES Passes...
Our long time customer Airshow Mastering will be holding an event at 10 AM on Saturday 10 / 10 at the Sonic Studio booth. Please come by for free coffee and an introduction to their new studio in Takoma Park, MD. Get Your Invitation Here : Airshow AES Event...
HI-END GEAR - Hamburg, Germany
The HI-END GEAR Pro Audio Conference to be held September 18-19, 2009 is the place for ambitious hobbyists and professional producers, engineers, studio-owners, musicians and pro-audio companies alike to get together, meet new faces and talk gear!
Come see all our products, including soundBlade and Amarra, the ultra-fideilty computer music player. Get hands-on demonstrations and check out what high resolution playback is all about.
For more information: HI-END GEAR INFO...
2009 Grammy Nominations...
The 2009 Grammy Awards were well represented by Sonic users. Did we miss you? if so, then please let us know.
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Dave Glasser, Airshow Mastering Mastered "At 89" by Pete Seeger, Best Traditional Album 2009. |
John Fishbach, Piety Street Mastered Cassandra Wilson's "Loverly", Best Jazz Vocal Album of 2009. |
Gavin Lurssen, Lurssen Mastering |
Toby Mountain, Northeastern Digital mastered 2008 Best Polka Album, |
soundBlade 1.3.1 Now Available
The 1.3.1 release provides fixes for bugs and new features including:
• Fixes for DDP Open using CD-Text
• Support for multiple auditions
• New Track view sizes for Multi-channel mode.
• Improvements to PQ Log to include Track and Artist.
Sonic Studio at the 125th AES
Engineers the world over converged on The City by the Bay
for the 125th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society.
We used soundBlade 2.0 for all our demos and we showed our new FixIt and DSD options for PreMaster CD.
Highlights included:
• release of a new, low cost NoNoise FixIt option
• shipment of a DSD converter option for Mac
• release of Sonic Console version 5 with expanded 2d +DSP processing
• demos of soundBlade 2.0.
Pictures from an exhibition:
Michael hosting a session with Redwood Digital, Lolly Lewis, Allen Rowland and more
George Massenburg, soundBlade abuser extrordinaire, making suggestions to Jon
Jeff Norman, soundBlade user and a well known fellow in the Grateful Dead community
John and Tim from Redwood Digital - four soundBlade systems and counting!
sB 1.2.2 Ships with Free Sonic EQ le
We’ve announced the release of a new version our flagship professional product, soundBlade, along with a new, no–cost version of Sonic EQ that accompanies this release. Running natively on the secure and user friendly Mac OS X, soundBlade relies on Core Audio for default I/O so hardware lock–in is eliminated. The 1.2.2 release incorporates hundreds of optimizations and stability enhancements.
A new twist for Sonic Studio is the release of Sonic EQ le, a free version of their legendary equalization, and a welcome addition to any engineer’s audio toolkit. Sonic EQ le is a proprietary implementation of equalizer that includes three different filter types, including a first order parametric, along with first order high and low shelves. In a departure from previous Sonic EQ releases, Sonic EQ le can also be used with any Mac audio product that hosts VST plug –ins…MORE.
Sonic Studio taps MASE for EMEA
We’ve also announced that Minnetonka Audio Software Europe GmbH has been selected to represent and distribute all Sonic Studio products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Partnering with Minnetonka Audio’s newly established European division is a key step in continuing to introduce Sonic Studio's benchmark technology to the worldwide market…MORE.
PMCD™ 3 is Released
We’ve also announced the release of a completely new version of our low cost premastering application, PreMaster CD™. The 3.0 release provides native support for both Intel and PowerPC hosts. This new, Universal Binary release consolidates all the maintenance changes incorporated into the code base while improving both ease of use, speed and stability on all Intel and PowerPC Macs.
PreMaster CD opens up a portable treasure chest of expert premastering features, including completely manual, automatic and semi–automatic PQ generation. Sonic Studio’s exclusive Smart Fade Tool and background CD writing, along with easy drag and drop resequencing makes quick work of CD refs. The new version, which includes enhanced dither choices, adds iZotope’s proprietary MBIT+™ redithering algorithm to Sonic Studio’s spectrally shaped TPDF redithering. Both choices are psychoacoustically–optimized redithering schemes, each with a different sonic “color,” so you can match your redithering choice to your material…MORE.
PreMaster CD Aces Three Reviews
From Greece, the March issue of SoundMaker ran a review of PreMaster CD and, not surprisingly, our product gets two thumbs up!
Larry DeVivo reviewed PreMaster CD in Issue #55 of Tape Op Magazine…“All in all, I’m very happy with Sonic Studio’s PreMaster CD. It will be my first choice in assembling masters to send to the manufacturing plant from now on. A powerful program with a tried and true heritage available as native software for the Mac at a reasonable price.” Read the review.
Erik Zobler reviewed PreMaster CD in the December 2006 issue of Mix Magazine…“I'm sold on the benefits of PMCD as a highly evolved, powerful tool for audio CD preparation that delivers high-quality masters on a superior format at a very reasonable price.” Read the review.
Intel Compatibility
Apple’s consumer and pro lines are all fitted with Intel processors. Although PreMaster CD 3 is a Universal Binary (UB) release, soundBlade runs well on Intel–equipped Macs. We at Sonic Studio are committed to Universal support of all our products for Mac OS and expect to have a UB version of soundBlade ready for Fall AES.
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